The Council finds it to be in the interest of the residents
of the Borough of Middletown and the general public to provide for
the regulation of conduct it deems to be offensive; to prevent vice,
disorder and immorality; and to promote public peace, health and safety;
and to this end, the Council enacts this article.

No person who has legal or equitable ownership of real estate
(property) located in the Borough shall knowingly allow that real
estate to be used as the site for the sale of illicit narcotics or
controlled dangerous substances after having received written notice
from the Borough that a present occupant or tenant of that property
has been convicted of selling illicit narcotics or controlled dangerous
substances at that property.

Whoever violates the above section shall, upon conviction thereof,
be fined not less than $100 nor more than $1,000 and costs of prosecution,
and in default of payment thereof, shall be imprisoned for not more
than 90 days.